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We introduce a direct, linear sampling approach to imaging in an acoustic waveguide with sound hard walls. The waveguide terminates at one end and has unknown geometry due to compactly supported wall deformations. The goal of imaging is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Liliana Borcea , Fioralba Cakoni , Shixu Meng

Symmetries and tunability are of fundamental importance in wave scattering control, but symmetries are often obvious upon visual inspection which constitutes a significant vulnerability of metamaterial wave devices to reverse-engineering…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Jérôme Sol , Malte Röntgen , Philipp del Hougne

This paper is concerned with acoustic scattering from a sound-soft trapezoidal surface in two dimensions. The trapezoidal surface is supposed to consist of two horizontal half-lines pointing oppositely, and a single finite vertical line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Wangtao Lu , Guanghui Hu

In this work we study the scattering and transfer matrices for electric fields defined with respect to an angular spectrum of plane waves. For these matrices, we derive the constraints that are enforced by conservation of energy,…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-17 Niall Byrnes , Matthew R. Foreman

In this paper, we provide an analytical study of the transmission eigenvalue problem in the context of biharmonic scattering with a penetrable obstacle. We will assume that the underlying physical model is given by an infinite elastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rafael Ceja Ayala , Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld

In this paper, we consider a new transmission eigenvalue problem derived from the scattering by a clamped cavity in a thin elastic material. Scattering in a thin elastic material can be modeled by the Kirchhoff--Love infinite plate problem.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Isaac Harris , Heejin Lee , Andreas Kleefeld

In this paper we study the problem of wave propagation in a 3-D optical fiber. The goal is to obtain a solution for the time-harmonic field caused by a source in a cylindrically symmetric waveguide. The geometry of the problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Oleg Alexandrov , Giulio Ciraolo

Unidirectional reflectionless propagation (or transmission) is an interesting wave phenomenon observed in many $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric optical structures. Theoretical studies on unidirectional reflectionless transmission often use simple…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-13 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

We present a semianalytical method to obtain perfect transmission across abrupt H-plane bends in single-mode rectangular waveguides using a single passive polarizable element (scatterer). The underlying analysis and synthesis schemes are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Liran Biniashvili , Ariel Epstein

We consider N atoms trapped in an isotropic harmonic potential, with s-wave interactions of infinite scattering length. In the zero-range limit, we obtain several exact analytical results: mapping between the trapped problem and the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Félix Werner , Yvan Castin

In this paper, we study the so-called clamped transmission eigenvalue problem. This is a new transmission eigenvalue problem that is derived from the scattering of an impenetrable clamped obstacle in a thin elastic plate. The scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld , Heejin Lee

It is possible to fabricate mesoscopic structures where at least one of the dimensions is of the order of de Broglie wavelength for cold electrons. By using semiconductors, composed of more than one material combined with a metal slip-gate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 B. Nilsson

We consider the propagation of acoustic waves in a waveguide containing a penetrable dissipative inclusion. We prove that as soon as the dissipation, characterized by some coefficient $\eta$, is non zero, the scattering solutions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Lucas Chesnel , Jérémy Heleine , Sergei A. Nazarov , Jari Taskinen

We are concerned with the inverse scattering problem of extracting the geometric structures of an unknown/inaccessible inhomogeneous medium by using the corresponding acoustic far-field measurement. Using the intrinsic geometric properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Jingzhi Li , Xiaofei Li , Hongyu Liu

This paper develops a scattering theory for the asymmetric transport observed at interfaces separating two-dimensional topological insulators. Starting from the spectral decomposition of an unperturbed interface Hamiltonian, we present a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Binglu Chen , Guillaume Bal

Getting to grips with the detrimental influence of disordered environments on wave propagation is an interdisciplinary endeavour spanning diverse research areas ranging from telecommunications \cite{basar_wireless_2019} and bio-medical…

We present an analysis of wave propagation in a two step-index, parallel waveguide system. The goal is to quantify the effect of scattering at randomly perturbed interfaces between the guiding layers of high index of refraction and the host…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

Non-Hermitian systems characterized by suitable spatial distributions of gain and loss can exhibit "spectral singularities" in the form of zero-width resonances associated to real-frequency poles in the scattering operator. Here, we study…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Massimo Moccia , Giuseppe Castaldi , Andrea Alù , Vincenzo Galdi

We extend the generalize conservation law of light propagating in a one-dimensional $\cal PT$-symmetric system, i.e., $|T-1|=\sqrt{R_LR_R}$ for the transmittance $T$ and the reflectance $R_{L,R}$ from the left and right, to a multimode…

Harmonic generation in the scattered fields produced by a dielectric sphere coated with a time-varying conductive shell is studied using a Mie theory approach hybridized with conversion matrix methods. Analytic results are derived for plane…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kurt Schab , Bradley Shirley , K. C. Kerby-Patel